Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the border state of Douglas, Arizona, primarily to discuss the domestic fentanyl crisis, saying she will “stop the flow of illicit fentanyl” into the United States. Meanwhile, under Harris and President Joe Biden's watch, drug-related deaths hit record highs.
“I am on my way back to Arizona to receive an official briefing on the latest efforts to secure our southern border and operations to stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into our country,” Harris said in a statement. Posted To X.
Harris supports spending hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to upgrade the ports of entry on the Arizona-Mexico border, which the government says will help stop fentanyl trafficking. , drug overdoses and addictions reached records under her and Biden's leadership.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that approximately 325,000 Americans will die from drug overdose or poisoning from 2021 to 2023.
In 2021, the United States recorded Approximately 107,000 drug overdoses and poisonings. In 2022, these deaths will break annual records; reach the peak The death toll is more than 111,000. In 2023, more than 107,500 Americans will die from drug overdose or addiction.
Many of these deaths were fentanyl-related, with the victims unaware that the opioid they were ingesting was laced with a deadly drug.
Ann Fundner, whose 15-year-old son Weston was poisoned with fentanyl in February 2022, recently called her son's death one of many “catastrophic consequences of the Biden-Harris administration's open borders policy.” He testified before Congress that there was.
“The Biden-Harris administration could have addressed this crisis, but instead it intensified it with open border policies,” Fundner told Congress. “Vice President Harris, who was appointed to manage the border situation, has not taken meaningful action and only recently visited the border for political reasons.”
“I hold Joe Biden and Kamala Harris directly responsible for my son's death. Their open border policies caused this devastating crisis,” Fandner said.
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